PDF Creation and Manipulation Tools

Market overview of recommendable PDF creation and manipulation tools, especially in connection with the creation of technical documentation and user assistance (user manuals, online help files, demos, tutorials).

Adobe Acrobat

Price: approx. $299 (Standard) and $449 (Professional); also available as part of the Technical Communication Suite

Nuance PDF Converter Professional

Price: approx. $100

ABBYY PDF Transformer and ABBYY FineReader

Price: approx. €65 / €139

Nitro PDF Professional

Price: approx. $100; Nitro PDF Professional OCR approx. $120

gDoc Fusion

Price: approx. €100

Amyuni PDF Suite

Price: approx. $99

Foxit PDF Creator, Foxit PDF Page Organizer, Foxit PDF Editor

Price: approx. $30, $59, $99

PDF Professionell

In German language only.

Price: approx. €36

PDF Studio for Linux, Mac & Windows

Price: approx. $60

PDFCreator

Acts as a printer driver and allows you to create PDF files from any Windows application.

Price: free (Open Source)

PrimoPDF

Allows you to create PDF files from any content you can print.

Price: free (Open Source)

Ghostscript and GSView

Can convert PostScript files into PDF, using the ps2pdf tool. The add-on GSView allows you to view both PostScript and PDF files on screen. It also lets you print directly from the viewer or export to bitmap formats.

Price: free (Open Source)

Infix PDF Editor

Price: approx. $99

CAD-KAS PDF Editor

Price: approx. $79

PDFTK Builder

Graphical user interface to the Windows version of the open source tool PDFTK. Allows you to split PDF files and to insert, rearrange and remove pages.

Price: free (Open Source)

pdfKorrektor

Inserts proofreader's marks according to the German DUDEN into PDF files. Only available in German.

Price: approx. €295

PDF Accessibility Checker (PAC)

Tests PDF files for accessibility issues.

Price: free (Freeware)

Foxit Reader (Freeware, Windows)

Alternative PDF reader. Small size, fast launch speed.

Price: free

Nuance PDF Reader

PDF viewer; also allows you to annotate PDF files.

Price: free

Xpdf

PDF file viewer for Linux. A PDF-to-Postscript converter is also included.

Price: free (Open Source)

Okular

Universal document viewer (including PDF and CHM) for KDE.

Price: free (Open Source)

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This page was last updated 08/2010.

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